Nursing dreams held hostage – The Hindu

Ritu*, a nursing graduate from Kerala, believed that when he wanted to return home to look at his family, he would help a nearby government secure his work. Instead, he trapped himself. Andhra Pradesh’s college hid her original certificates and insisted that she had completed the “service period” for a year in a connected hospital before her release.

“I wanted to go back to Kerala and work because of family problems, but my university has kept all my original certificates. They don’t call it ‘bond service’, but this is exactly that.

Lies in the heart of a new case of public interest (PIL) opened by the Indian Professional Nurses Association (IPNA), a welfare organization for nurses.

The petition emphasizes how private colleges continue to use students despite the repeated judicial and regulatory explanations that declare the application illegal.

Illegal, but developing

The “bond system ğı, where graduates forced their graduates to work in affiliated hospitals for a fixed period and refused to return their certificates until the period was completed, has been officially abolished for more than ten years.

In 2011, the Supreme Court of Delhi emphasized the Indian Nursing Council (INC) to take proactive steps against implementation and emphasized that nurses should not “feel they are connected”. Accordingly, In the same year, INC published an circularly published a circularity that declares that the retention of service bonds and certificates was “unethical practices öylemek to be stopped immediately.

At the same time, the Indian -educated Nurses Association applied a PIL opened in front of the Supreme Court and took off the complaints of nurses in private hospitals about working conditions. The Association also increased the bond system, which is common in nursing institutes.

However, in January 2016, the upper court left this problem after Inc stated that the system was “abolished”. Later, Inc contained open warnings against the continuation of the bond system in nursing colleges directives.

Serious situation

According to IPNA, hundreds of complaints against the system are still spilling from nursing students in India every year. They describe a common situation: College, which holds critical documents such as class 10 and 12 marked layers, nursing degrees and registration certificates, to make sure that students have to work in affiliated hospitals for insufficient wages.

For many young nurses, the results are severe. Without access to original certificates, they cannot work higher, they cannot apply to government affairs, and even seek opportunities abroad.

IPNA’s defense said that institutions avoided receipt for the documents they have caught and left the students vulnerable to exploitation and exploitation.

According to IPNA’s joint secretary Siju Thomas, the repeated representations made by IPNA by IPNA were largely unanswered.

Complaint mechanism

Ritu remembered how Ipna and the defender of Robin Raju intervened last year, not only for her name, but also for the other eight students whose certificates were hidden.

While talking HinduAlthough he could finally get his documents, he said that many other nursing students in the private institutes throughout the country continue to face the same ordeal.

Delhi HC, which was opened through lawyer Joe Sebastian, wants to establish an online complaint correction mechanism in which students can directly report violations without fear of retaliation. In addition, regular inspections and private nursing institutions require strict supervision by INC.

*Name was changed on request